JENI SPOTA

Born in New York in 1982.  Live and works in Chicago.

EDUCATION

2007    MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2004    BFA, State University of New York at Purchase

2003    Yale University, School of Art, Norfolk Summer Residency

2002    University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Cortona, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Giotto's Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2007

Giotto's Dream, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 

A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

The Dark Fair, The General Store, New York, NY 

2007

Fifths, SWINGR, Vienna, Austria

Summer Group Show, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago, IL

Ha___&___If, Sound Art Space, Loredo , TX

2006

Illinois Women Artists, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Illinois Committee at the Gage Gallery, Chicago, IL

Bentnames, Fifty50 Gallery, Chicago, IL

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008 

Foumberg, Jason. "Jeni Spota," Frieze.com, February 20. 

2007

Wooldridge, Jane. "Hot Picks," Miami Herald, December 6, p. 23A.

Pagel, David. "Critic's Choice: Horrors Hidden in Globs of Paint," Los Angeles Times, October 26, p. E22.

Brooks, Amra. "Must See Art," LA Weekly, November 8.

"The Modernists," Elle Magazine, November, p. 138.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2007    School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2006    National Museum for Women in the Arts

2005    Vermont Studio Center

2004    Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship